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Re:Claudette: Make Claude Stop Talking Like a BuzzFeed Article by easyascake on Friday August 21, 2026 @06:51PM (#49394683)
We call these temporal comments. We recently updated our code review skills to heavily discourage them. It doesn’t matter why funcA was added then later refactored to funcB. That much can be ascertained from git history. What does matter is why approach A doesn’t work, but B does.
Re:Claudette: Make Claude Stop Talking Like a BuzzFeed Article by porker on Saturday August 22, 2026 @02:33AM (#49397167)
How well is your code review skill doing at detecting and correcting these? History in comments in git is so annoying! As is missing why A didn't work but B does. None of the models I've tried get this right